This is the kind of thing that will start happening as the price of transistors on ICs start to rise in response to the end of Moore's law. A recent episode of

This is the kind of thing that will start happening as the price of transistors on ICs start to rise in response to the end of Moore's law. A recent episode of Asianometry - The 3-D Transistor Transition[1] pointed out that gate prices hit their minimum with 28 nanometer processes,(13:17 in the video) and have now begun to rise. So in the future, you'll pay more per gate, but they continue to be smaller and faster and lower power, so for the most part it's worth it. As for non-binary RAM sizes, we'll have to get used to it. I just wish they would work on making the memory we have more reliable, so that RowHammer and other attacks just wouldn't be able to exploit their flaws. It would be nice if ECC were standard everywhere. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dDslo9ibw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dDslo9ibw